GRE Word List
EXEGESIS
exposition
The meaning of the word exegesis is exposition.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| threat | an expression of intention to inflict evil, injury, or damage |
| stricture | an abnormal narrowing of a bodily passage |
| callus | a thickening of or a hard thickened area on skin or bark |
| brunt | the principal force, shock, or stress (as of an attack) |
| pauper | a person destitute of means except such as are derived from charity |
| equestrian | of, relating to, or featuring horseback riding |
| embezzlement | to appropriate (something, such as property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use |
| virus | any of a large group of submicroscopic infectious agents that are usually regarded as nonliving extremely complex molecules, that typically contain a protein coat surrounding an RNA or DNA core of genetic material but no semipermeable membrane, that are capable of growth and multiplication only in living cells, and that cause various important diseases in humans, animals, and plants |
| headstrong | not easily restrained : impatient of control, advice, or suggestions |
| effective | producing a decided, decisive, or desired effect |